Physic Flex Your BICEP Physic Flex Your BICEP The recent BICEP2 results seem to have caught a lot of media attention. News coverage ranges from NY Times to CNN, etc. And let’s face it, this isn’t easy to understand even if the news media coverage glosses over the physics on why this ...

Physic LIGO Discovery And The Nobel Prize Physic LIGO Discovery And The Nobel Prize Inevitably, the discussion that follows after the LIGO announcement of the detection of gravitational wave is the Nobel Prize. If there is a sure thing with regard to the Nobel Prize, is that this discovery will ...

The Curse Of Being A Physicist The Curse Of Being A Physicist When do you speak up in a social setting and set someone straight? I think I’ve mentioned a few times on here of being in a social setting, and then being found out that I’m a physicist. Most ...

Physics Combining QM, SR, and HEP is “New”? Physics Combining QM, SR, and HEP is “New”? Often times, when science news is reported in the mass media, while the reporting might be somewhat accurate, the implications that it leaves behind, especially when read by someone not trained in that area, ...

Physics Most Dangerous Numbers? Phooey! Physics Most Dangerous Numbers? Phooey! This is a by a CERN physicist Harry Cliff. In it, he discussed the conundrum theoretical physicists are facing with the current knowledge of the Higgs and dark energy. At the core of Cliff’s argument are what he calls the two ...

This physic Educational Video on Accelerators Doesn’t Get It This physic Educational Video on Accelerators Doesn’t Get It OK, before you send me hate mail and comments, I KNOW that I’m hard on this guy. He was probably trying to make a sincere and honest effort to explain something based ...

Don’t Miss Looking At The Trees Due To The Forest physics Don’t Miss Looking At The Trees Due To The Forest physics In addition to having a large electron cloud, an unusual feature of a Rydberg atom is that its highly excited electron can exist as a coherent superposition of ...

How to Study Physics to Get a A-Plus How to Study Physics to Get a A-Plus Physics is the study of nature itself. Everything in this world obeys the laws of physics. Understanding these laws helps us to predict how everything based upon these laws will behave under given circumstances. ...

An Interesting Application of Physics in Day to Day Life An Interesting Application of Physics in Day to Day Life In this article, we will have an interesting question on the ideological work done during cooking cookie. We will apply the basic concepts of physics to answer it. We will ...

Learning Physics At The Grocery Store Check Out Counter Learning Physics At The Grocery Store Check Out Counter Everything I wanted to know about Physics I learned at the Grocery Store check out counter. How so you ask? Well simple and let me explain. You have a Can of Arizona ...